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sometimes it may be noticed at rest on palings. When 

 in repose, the wings are folded in a very peculiar way 

 so as to give the insect an elongate, narrow appearance. 



FAMILY X. 

 PHLOGOPHORA EMPYREA. 



(Plate VIII., Fig. 4.) 



This handsome and showy species was only added to 

 the British list a few years ago ; it occurs in various 

 localities in Sussex, most freely in the neighbourhood of 

 Lewes. 



The expansion of the wings is very nearly 2 inches. 

 The fore- wings are of a rich, purplish-brown, with a 

 conspicuous dark-blackish blotch near the inner margin 

 at the base, and another in the centre of the wing below 

 the stigmata ; there is also a smaller black blotch on 

 each side of the reniform stigma, which is conspicuously 

 pale-yellowish, with an elongate, narrow projection from 

 its lower end towards the base of the wing. 



The larva is greyish-green or greyish-brown, with the 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines paler and with a row of 

 darker lozenge-shaped blotches along the back ; the 

 spots are yellowish-white. It feeds in the early spring 

 on various low plants, being rather partial to pilewort. 



The perfect insect appears towards the end of 

 September and beginning of October, and comes rather 

 readily to sugar. 



FAMILY X. HADENID^:. 



HADENA OLERACEA. THE BBIGHT-LINE 

 BKOWN-EYE. 



A common species, and very generally distributed* 

 The expansion of the wings is about 1J inch. The 



